Fascicle 4
Theory and Practice

Kyushindo principles are best expressed first of all as physical laws which are easy to understand. However, these laws are only the material manifestation of abstract principals and concepts and therefore, if universal laws and principles are always applicable (and "universal" implies that they are); these same laws apply to the spiritual, mental, conceptual or insubstantial planes as much as they do to the physical. This is not so easy to understand. Therefore, Kyushindo might best be related to the things we understand as second nature; the things we don't normally bother to think about.

Assimilating the application of Kyushindo to physical technique is only meant to be the first steps in acquiring the necessary understanding to enable deeper, serious study.

Before any attempt is made to explain the principles involved in any technique, any cause and effect, it is necessary to understand something of the theory within which the technique exists i.e. the various 'laws' that it is subject to.

One can, in theory, learn how to ride a bike and perhaps even imagine what it is like to ride a bike by reading a book about it by someone who has; but you won't really know what it is like to ride that bike until you get on it and try to ride it!

Because we think with our mind, we automatically confuse what is in the mind with what is real - and thus we may be inclined to make a series of completely unfounded assumptions. The following analogy is an example:

You are given a ball of string, a pair of sharp scissors and a one metre ruler. You are asked to cut off a piece of string exactly one metre in length.
If, after the cut has been made, we have the string examined under magnification, we will find that it is only approximately correct; simply because you were only able to measure it as accurately as your eye and the ruler permitted and cut it only as sharp as the scissors would allow.

So, if we cannot trust our eyes - can we define any measurement as an exact measurement in theory? Unfortunately, the answer is "No".
Precise measurement (even with an electron microscope) is impossible because the objects which we wish to compare are composed of molecules, which are in turn composed of atoms, which consist of nuclei and attendant electrons. We might conceivably define a measurement as accurate to within the furthest of the electrons orbit, providing such orbits coincided. Minute as such differences may be, a miss is really as good as a mile when we speak of absolutes.
Our senses are strictly limited, operating within a narrow band of what we can actually detect around us. Modern scientific instruments extend this range, but we still exist in a Universe of an infinite range of vibrations, extending far above and below those we can actually see, hear, or detect with our instruments. It therefore behoves us to maintain the greatest caution when making any assumptions based on our visual observations of the Universe.

Absolute accuracy and measurements exist only as purely mental concepts, and that being abstract, they have no actual physical reality. It is only in the realm of mathematics (a function of pure mind) that 1 and 1 make 2 and it is only in the mind that we can assign a constant and unchangeable value for our basic unit of 1.

Because we think with the mind, we automatically confuse what is in the mind with what is real - and thus we continually make a series of completely unfounded assumptions, not only about measurements but about everything in the Universe.

Because our mind prevents us from seeing things as they actually happen we live a life in which events appear to occur at random. We feel ourselves to be the recipients of "good" or "bad" luck as well as subject to the vagaries of fate. In fact, even the laws of chance follow a precise mathematical rule and may be calculated to a high degree of accuracy.

Physicists today realise that it is possible to absolutely define the position of a particle and have thus seen fit to introduce a "probability" factor in describing the operation of such sub-atomic particles.
The precepts of Kyushindo are inclusive of the law of probabilities, because a basic rule is often modified by other factors. Such laws then simply indicate "trends" which allow us to better actually understand the when and why things happen.

We can therefore say that Kyushindo attempts to go beyond the initial, misleading impression of things and uncover the real causes of which lie below. We construct such rules and laws (in themselves unattainable absolutes), simply as a convenient means of ordering thought.

Gravity is a fundamental law of nature and all things fall, but some things slide, trickle or roll, and others even rise by various means. By defining the fundamental concept of mass attracting mass, all these manifestations may be understood in their special context and modified by extraneous factors. It is in this way that we utilise the three basic precepts of Kyushindo.

The three basic precepts of Kyushindo are:
1. BAMBUTSU RUTEN: All things in the Universe are in perpetual motion.
2. RITSU DO: Motion is relative.
3. CHO WA: All things in the Universe are in perpetual motion.